Legal Opinion
Schmitt v. True
District Court, E.D. Virginia
Decided September 15, 2005No. Civ.A.3:02 CV 953PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
PAYNE, District Judge.
Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254, John Yan-cey Schmitt, a Virginia state prisoner who has been sentenced to death, filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus challenging his conviction in the Circuit Court for the County of Chesterfield for capital murder and the ensuing death sentence. In a Memorandum Opinion (Docket No. 80) issued on January 21, 2005, all of Schmitt’s claims for habeas relief were rejected except for the following claims:
XIV. Trial counsel was ineffective when he failed to object in a timely manner to the admission of the tape recording…
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